Aspiring Generalist: Future
Inside the Colorado factory where AtmosZero is electrifying steam.
X-59: NASA’s silent supersonic jet completes historic first flight.
Robotaxis and suburbia.
Struggling to breathe in New Delhi’s smog, in photos:
World’s first motorway that charges EVs while driving begins trials.
What AI doesn’t know: We could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse.’
Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy.
Blue Origin to build a “super heavy” rocket to compete with Starship.
The juxtaposition of "electrifying steam" with concerns about AI-driven knowledge collapse captures the strange duality of this moment—we're simultaneously pushing the boundaries of industrial innovation while potentially undermining our collective ability to understand and build upon that progress. The AtmosZero development is fascinating; industrial heat is such an underappreciated decarbonization challenge. And the 'global knowledge collapse' piece raises crucial questions about what happens when model training data becomes increasingly contaminated by model outputs. We might be optimizing ourselves into epistemic fragility.